Chapter 17 Review Questions

Democracy
  1. How does the “boomerang effect” influence political change?
  2. Contrast the procedural and substantive definitions of democracy.
  3. What is an authoritarian political regime?
  4. Contrast the phases of democratic transition and democratic consolidation.
  5. What is the agency-based explanation of democracy?
  6. What group of scholars argue that structuralist vision is “teleological,” and what do they mean by this contention?
  7. What is the one of the main criticisms to the procedural approach?
  8. If culture is not fixed, what does this mean for the idea of democracy?
  9. Can India be considered an example of substantive democracy? Explain.
  10. What does the national structural approach indicate?
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